INDEX.
Allotments, [114]
Andrews, Hy., astronomer, [34], [107]
Anstey Fair, Rural Sports at, [100]
Arrington, coaching at, [144]
Arrington-hill, [154]
"Bacca" and snuff for paupers, [41]
Banks stopping payment, [56]
Barkway, Day School at, [121]
—Terrible fire at, [178], [179]
—Volunteers of, [68]
—Whipping post at, [83]
—Workhouse at, [40]
Barley, "Fox and Hounds" at, [18]
—Incendiary fires at, [170]
—Strange narrative of horse-stealing at, [89]
—Volunteers of, [71]
Beadle, dignity and duties of, [53], [54]
—The, and Bastardy laws, [163]
—Emoluments of, [55]
Beldam, Joseph, senr., [28]
—Valentine, [27]
Biggleswade, dreadful fire at, [179]
Bishop Stortford, Volunteers of, [71]
Blucher at Cambridge, [72]
Body-snatching, horrors of, [81]
Bow Street Runner, [170]
Buntingford, Bridewell at, [93]
—Mails from, [115]
—Pauper Weddings at, [50]
—Queen & Prince Albert at, [187]
—Roads, [12]
Burying at four cross-roads, [86]
Butler, Henry, woolstapler, [105]
—John, [27]
—W. Warren, and his rhymes, [132-135]
Butcher, the, and the Baronet, [136]
Cambridge "Chronicle," [15]
—Coach, [10]
—Undergraduates and village rows, [138], [139]
Cambridgeshire Members of Parliament, [157]
Cannon, Mrs., Old Matt and the Burglars, [182]
Capital punishment, painful case of, [91]
—Sentence of death for theft at Melbourn, [91]
Carter, Valentine, stage-coach driver, [150]
Caxton, [71]
—Coaching to, [144]
—Gibbet, [13]
—Mail robbery, [48]
Cave Estate, Royston, [35], [37]
Census, manner of taking, [116]
—Returns of, in Appendix, [195], [196], [197]
Charles I. at Royston, [7]
Chartism at Royston, [127]
Chimney sweeps' climbing boys, [78]
Chipping, [12]
Cholera-morbus, the, alarm in Royston [60] years ago, [182], [183]
Coaching Accidents, [149], [150]
Coaches, begging from, [152]
—London to Edinburgh, [145]
—Palmy days and speed of, [146]
Coals brought from Cambridge to Royston, [75]
Cock-fighting, [23]
Cooper Thornhill's Ride, [178]
Cottage homes of England, dilapidation of, [192]
Crabb Robinson's Diary, [27]
Cricket in the 18th Century, [130]
Cross, Thos, stage-coach driver, [150]
—Autobiography of, [136-141]
Cruikshank, [67]
Dacre, Lord, [110]
—Lord and Lady, [121]
Daintry, Mrs. and Thomas, [115]
Day Schools, [120]
Death Sentences [100] years ago, [88]
Dogberry, Marrying the Paupers, [49], [50], [51]
—Reporting nuisances, [55], [66]
Dogs and Pedlars' Carts, [153]
Education in Villages, [117]
Electioneering in Herts., [156]
Farmers and the Labourers, [58]
—and Famine prices, [59]
Fire Brigade of last Century, [44]
Fly Wagons, [6]
—Journey to London, by, [143]
Flower, Benjamin, [27]
Food, Prices of, [75]
Fordham, E. K., [70]
—Edward Snow, [75]
—John George, [168], [169], [175]
Forgery, Death sentences for, [92]
Fowlmere, Riot at, [169]
Foxton, Volunteers at, [71]
Free Trade, First meetings in Royston, [112]
French prisoners, [71]
Gallows, The, [88]
Gamlingay, Overseers and paupers at, [162]
Gas, first prices of, [114]
Gatward, James, and the Gibbet, [12], [13]
George III., his reign, [1]
—Fashions in times of, [76]
—Hooted and mobbed, [56]
—Jubilee of, [181]
George IV., and his Queen —Kingites and Queenites, [127]
Gransden, Pauper tyranny at, [166]
Guilden Morden, incendiary fires at, [167]
Hall, Robert, at Royston, [27]
Hardwicke, the Earl of, and the Queen's visit, [188], [189], [190]
—and Royston Races, [133]
Harston, enclosure riot at, [180], [181]
Hatfield, Royal Review at, [70]
Hauxton, sheep stealing at, [89]
Hertford, pillory at, [83]
Heydon Grange, prize-fighting near, [137]
Highwaymen, [151]
Highways, condition of, [8], [10]
Highway robbery, [90]
Hinxton, burning Pain's effigy at, [26]
Hinxworth, labourers' earnings, [59]
Hitchin, awful visitation at, [179]
Hue and cry, [48]
Influenza, following great frost in 1836, [186]
Inoculation, [80]
Jacklin, James, [72]
James I. at Royston, [8]
"John Ward, beadle," [55]
Kellarman, alchemist of Lilley, [102]
Kneesworth and Caxton toll proceeds of, [154]
Lambert, Daniel, the fat man, [181]
Letters, postage of, [115]
Louis XVIII., at Royston, [181]
McAdam and the North Road, [154]
Mail coach driver killed, [186]
Market ordinary, the, [109]
Melbourn, the Queen and Prince Albert at, [188]
Meldreth and its Stocks, [86]
Memorable year of scarcity, [57]
Mordens, the, [24]
Napoleon Buonaparte, [5]
—Shadow of, [56]
—Threatened invasion by, [61]
Newspapers, how obtained, [77]
Noon's Folly, and its prize-fights, [136], [139]
Nuthamstead "Sparrow hill," [47]
Odsey Races, the, [22]
Old Matt, the huntsman, [131]
Old music and musicians, [128], [129]
Old Poor-law, the, [32]
Open corn markets, [110]
Parish Clerks, [122]
—Constable, and his accounts, [46]
—Herdsman, the, [105]
—Leaving without certificate, [43]
—Workhouse, how managed, [39]
Parliamentary Reform, [29], [156]
—Rejoicings at Royston, [157]
Parochial Assessment, [34]
—Parliament, the, [32]
Pattens and Clogs, [113]
Paupers, [40], [41], [42], [44], [46]
Peachey, the Hon. Mrs., [68]
Pedestrian feat by a woman, [182]
Phillips, John, [181]
Pickering, Miss, [27]
Pillion, the use of, [7]
Police, the new, [174], [175], [176]
Poor-law Reform, [159]
—Making up wages, [161]
—Memorable scene on Royston Heath, [172], [173]
—Objection to Central Workhouse, [170]
Poor-law Pauper tyranny, [166]
—Riots and stack firing, [167], [168]
Poor-rate of 22s. in the L at Royston, [61]
Posting and Posthorses, [146]
Press Gang, and terrors of, [86], [88]
—Melbourn Champion, [137], [138]
—Brighton Bill, [138]
—Ward and Crawley fighting for the Championship on Royston Heath, [137]
Public Worship, [122]
Puckeridge Statute Fair, [98]
Queen Victoria's Coronation, rejoicings at Royston, [186]
—Jubilee, [70]
—and Prince Albert at Royston, [187], [188]
Radical Royston, [126]
Railway, first use of, [176], [177]
Revolution, the French, [2], [3], [4]
Richardson, James, [151]
Royal Show, Cambridge, 1840, [186]
Royston, Badger-baiting at, [23]
—Book Club and Debates at, [26], [31], [79]
—Burloes Hill cut through, [183], [184]
—Coaching at, [143-145], [148]
—Early Temperance work, [127]
—18th Century bye-laws in, [25]
—Fair tippling at, [100]
—King James' stables at, [22]
—Old Royston Club and its members at, [19], [20]
—Pillory at, [83]
—Races, [133]
—Red Lion, social gatherings, [21]
—Stocks at, [83]
—Volunteers of, [70]
—Whipping post at, [83]
Rushden, A. Meetkerke of, [122]
Salisbury, Marchioness, burnt to death, [184]
Semaphore on Royston Heath, [66]
Sheep stealing, death sentences for, [89]
Shelford fires, death sentence for, [168]
Shepreth, skilful woman of, [101]
Shield, Capt., the Rev. Thomas, [68], [71]
Small-pox, a recommendation, [44]
Snelgar, Rev. J., [186]
Snowstorms, memorable, [181], [182], [185]
Soame, Sir Peter, [131], [132], [136]
Stocks, a Lord Chief Justice in, [85]
"Tally-ho" and "Safety" Coaches, [146], [148]
Taxes on marriages, &c., [78]
Therfield, searching for mail, [49]
Threshing machines, breaking of, [166]
Thurnall, Henry, and the highwayman, [90]
—Commended by Poor-law Commissioners, [171]
Thurnall, H. J., picture by, [18]
Thurtle and Hunt, trial of, [49]
Tithes collected in kind, [124]
Turpin, Dick, traditions of, [13], [14]
Velocipede, the, [152]
Volunteers, associations of, [67]
Wadesmill Turnpike, [155]
Wagon and sign post, the, [184], [185]
Walton, Joe, coachdriver, [148], [149]
Window tax, [79]
Witches, [101]
Wheat, 28s. a bushel, [60]
"Wheatbarn tasker," the, [166]
Woodcock, Elizabeth, buried alive in the snow, [181]
Wortham, Lady, [77]
Wortham, Squire, [131]
Wrestling matches, [24]